Ramones Quotes
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The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
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The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
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We always stayed true to what the Ramones are.
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Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.
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There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
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When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.